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  • How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for what he thought, in spite of all her pride in spite of herself? She believed that she could have borne the sense of Almighty displeasure, because He knew all, and could read her penitence, and hear her cries for help in time to come. But Mr.Thornton-why did she tremble, and hide her face in the pillow? What strong feeling had overtaking her at last?

    Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1166, Delphi Classics
  • Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.

    Expectations   Joy   Wish  
    William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.229
  • Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.

    Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics
  • Real social progress is always a widening of the circle of concern and protection. It's respect and empathy overtaking blindness and indifference. It's understanding that by the true measure, we are all neighbors and countrymen, call to each one of us to know what is right and kind and just and to go and do likewise.

    Real   Circles   Empathy  
    Source: www.foxnews.com
  • Holly clambered after him, struggling up the human-size steps. "Wait! Just wait," she called, overtaking Artemis and looking him in the eye from one step up. "I know you, Artemis. You like to play your genius card close to your chest until the big reveal. And that's worked out for us so far. But this time you need to let me in. I can help. So, tell me the truth, do you have a plan?" Artemis met his friend's gaze and lied to her face. "No," he said. "No plan.

    Struggle   Eye   Play  
  • When I notice a rear wheel overtaking me, I know I'm sitting in a Lotus.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • If we once and for so long lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again. The catastrophe that's overtaking us has deep roots, but our previous state of natural anarchy reaches much further into our shared history .

    Roots   Long   Balance  
    "Take My Advice : Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two". Book by James L. Harmon, 2007.
  • I think it would be a great challenge to work on a military game which featured a female lead character. Since female soldiers are now being allowed on the frontlines, we're actually in danger of reality overtaking games!

    Source: www.dualshockers.com
  • The photograph keeps open the instants which the onrush of time closes up forthwith; it destroys the overtaking, the overlapping, the metamorphosis of time.

    Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Galen A. Johnson, Michael B. Smith (1993). “The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting”, p.145, Northwestern University Press
  • If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.

    "Adam Devine on How to Throw a House Party". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. October 24, 2013.
  • I found that each time I opened my camera and filmed Jerusalem, its image was overtaking what I wanted to express.

    "TIFF 2015 Women Directors: Meet Danae Elon – ‘P.S. Jerusalem’". Interview with Freja Dam, www.indiewire.com. September 11, 2015.
  • I have never known more than fifteen minutes of anxiety or fear. Whenever I feel fearful emotions overtaking me, I just close my eyes and thank God that He is still on the throne reigning over everything and I take comfort in His control over the affairs of my life.

    Eye   Anxiety   Thank God  
  • If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again.

    Nature   Long   Balance  
    "Take My Advice : Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two". Book edited by James L. Harmon, 2007.
  • Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.

    "Ryan Giggs named best player in Premier League's 20-year history", www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.
  • If you travel to the continent you never have any problems overtaking, this is the only country I know where the outside lane is congested and the two inner lanes are empty. It drives me crazy. I'm ashamed that is so typically British.

    Country   Crazy   Two  
    Source: www.mirror.co.uk
  • When the pain overtakes you, reach inside. Gather the broken pieces, and hand them to God. Ask Him to remake your heart. Different, this time. Stronger. More beautiful. This is how we are made, and remade by the Maker.

    Beautiful   Pain   Heart  
  • Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

    Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam
  • The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never wholly succeeds in overtaking the reality.

    Reality   Light   Grace  
  • The great scientific achievements are research programmes which can be evaluated in terms of progressive and degenerative problemshifts; and scientific revolutions consist of one research programme superceding (overtaking in progress) another. This methodology offers a new rational reconstruction of science.

  • And what amazes me as I hit the motorway is not the fact that everyone loses someone, but that everyone loves someone. It seems like such a massive waste of energy -- and we all do it, all the people beetling along between the white lines, merging, converging, overtaking. We each love someone, even though they will die. And we keep loving them, even when they are not there to love any more. And there is no logic or use to any of this, that I can see.

    White   People   Energy  
    Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.28, Random House
  • Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

    Expectations   Joy   Risk  
    William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.229
  • Loads of overtaking is boring. You go fishing and you catch a fish every ten minutes and it's boring. But if you site there all day, and you catch one mega fish, you come back with stories that you caught a fish this big (indicates a big fish), intead of this size (indicating a small fish)

  • The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

    "Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh".
  • In the City of Death, there is pitch darkness and huge clouds of dust, neither sister nor brother is there. This body is frail, old age is overtaking it.

    Brother   Clouds   Dust  
  • India may be overtaking China as the world's most polluted country. Even now, which country is worse depends on the day.

    Country   India   World  
    "India May Be Overtaking China As Most Polluted Country". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 23, 2016.
  • Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls; they don't demolish them.

    Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.51, Simon and Schuster
  • I heard an Englishman, who had been long resident in America, declare that in following, in meeting, or in overtaking, in the street, on the road, or in the field, at the theatre, the coffee-house, or at home, he had never overheard Americans conversing without the word DOLLAR being pronounced between them. Such unity of purpose ... can ... be found nowhere else, except... in an ant's nest.

    Coffee   Home   America  
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